I’ve been cartooning professionally since I was 17, when I won the Straits Times cartooning contest, and was hired to write and draw a daily strip for their fledgling tabloid, The New Paper. I didn’t know it beforehand, but I became the first ever Singaporean to write and draw a daily strip. Previously, Singaporean newspapers reprinted syndicated strips from abroad, while locals did op-ed or weekly pieces at most. Over the course of 20 years, I drew the following strips for The New Paper:

I also occasionally do comic strips for my long-running humour column for 8Days, Singapore’s highest circulation weekly magazine, as well as commissioned cartoons and comic books for both private and governmental organizations. My cartoons have also been published in many publications, including American Legion (USA), Troika (USA), The Mirror (Singapore), Sinica (Japan), AHA (Japan), Wenhua yu Youmo (China) and Pi (UK).

But the main focus of my illustration work for the past few years has been for Dim Sum Warriors, for which I do the covers, thumbnails, promo art, and beginning with Volume 3, the complete artwork in full.

Here are just some of the many pieces of original artwork I generated for use in the Musical: